Covid-19 Seafood Impacts

Reported impacts and responses on the seafood sector were compiled from April 3 to May 30, 2020, which includes (n = 175) articles published from January 28 to May 27, 2020. News articles were collected by monitoring Google News alerts for ("seafood" OR "fish") AND ("coronavirus" OR "covid"), daily data scraping of Twitter posts for "seafood" and "coronavirus" OR "covid," website searches of primary seafood industry news outlets (e.g., SeafoodSource,Undercurrent, and IntraFish), and compiling information shared through the authors’ professional networks. All news articles containing information about an impact on or response to the COVID-19 pandemic relating to any stage of the seafood supply chain were considered relevant. For each article, we extracted information the: article title, article date, article link, date of the impact, the type of impact, and the countries, sector(s), supply chain stage(s), species, and product form(s) involved, as well as whether the production is recreational, small-scale, and/or industrial.